The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-06

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IN Frances Mary Pesrd,a .Preptics HUM (Thoms ~
wh,atsr vs have an interesting story Of stone cat
tors apprentice Who became sk,fui carver in stone
ana an artistic dssrner Of Gothic orpsmsntstion The
scene 10 ad IN RxeeY Al the close Of the thirteenth and
ths BEGINNING OF the fourteenth century when the
nsss portions Of xstsr Cathedral were constructed or
psojsotsd By Bishop pton Some striking pictures Of
Hdwsrd l. are incidentally introduced
Under the title Of "Ths Spectator: selected Essays
n. warns 4 Col Mr. Alexander Charles Bwald hes
produced collection Of the choicest papers IN Steele
and Addisons spsctstorr The contributions Of these
writer's and particularly of Addison are naturally the
most numerous The Sir faoaeY Dc coversy and viii
Honeyeomb Essaya and indeed all OF those relating 70
the famous club arc given entire and the reader will
Scarcely miss one Of his fsvorites from among the mis-
cslaneous papera Mr. Ewald has supplied interest
Ing introductory essay
..The Heart Of Merrs England" BY the Rev Jamss O.
Stone (Porter Coatesl u book Of "Reminiscences of
nner quality than the hacknsyed records Of common.
place tyAvellera The author II manof taste who IL
able 70 express himself In style always agreeable and
ofon elegant He 10 also Rnglishman. long resident
in the United States and writes OF the land Of his
tivity with enthusiasm which the foreisnborn tour
st cannot readily command The "heart" Of England
he locates not In London but In the counties OF War
Wick, Worcester, and Oxford, and TO the untrodden
ways Of these ana their local legends and traditions no
has mainly devoted himself. Dr. Stone cxoels In de-
scripsions of rural scenery.
Mr. James Baldwin has produced IN his "story Of the
Golden Ago" (scr,bnsrs an excellent introduction to
the neurological history Of the Hellenic races He
rightly remarks that whom one undertakes to read
Homer without having made some preliminary study
Of the Greek mytha he ands hard to understand and
a. everybody ought read Homer not in the original
at least through good translation he has written this
work pave the way toward proper appreciation OF
the Hoerio narrative. Ha story Ia told with cearness
and animation, and with coloring pardonable In one
who relates legendary tales to juvenile readers We
must object however, to his omission Of Popes name
among the trnnslators OF Homer when Bryants s ad-
mitted Tho illustrations by Howard Pyle arc Of high
order Of merit and Of them might challenge com
parison with Alma Tademas pictures Of antique life
"The Children Of silence" Porter CoateO In the
name very appropriately bestowed BY tho Rev. DR.
Joseph A. seiss upon worn, historical technical and
statistical deaf mutoA Il was undertaken by him In
hs capacity Of director Of the Pennsylvania Institution
for tho Deaf and Dumb for his own Information and 10
written throughout in spirit Of sincere commseraon
for tho unfortunate people to whom 1t 10 devoted The
causes Of deafness and the treatment to which deaf
mutss subjected detailed with accuracy and In
esence and the statistics contain the substance OF the
most recent reports the subject appears that tho
total number Of institutions In Europe and America for
the treatment Of deaf mutes s7s, with 10 9 inmates
and the credit Of the United States may DO men
toned that aOol Of these inmatea than third
Of the whols are to be found In our own institutions
"Ths Politics Of Labor" BY Phillips Thompson (Bsl-
ford. Clarke Cor Is . loose and rambling diatribs
Against the existing social order written, evidently BY
ono Of the great unsuccessful multitude to whom. b.
cause Of their Ill suoess everything that ia is wrong.
The shrswd the able and the enssrprisn9 get riches
and power while the weak and ignorant are ruled BY
them This the author would remedy BY forbiddinR
the private Ownership Of land and Of capital and by
placing great enterprises such railroads and tse
srapha In the hsnds Of the Government How he would
prevent the Government itself from falling under the
control Of Just such men o. those Of whose domination
he now complains no falls 70 suggest. He admits that
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